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Monday, 7 December 2015

5 Takeaways from the Diabetes Drugs Investigation

All 30 diabetes drugs reviewed for this series were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2004-2013 based on surrogate measures of elevated blood sugar such as HbA1c, which can indicate risk for type 2 diabetes complications, but not always. Here are a few key points of what we learned in the course of our investigation. Read thefull analysis, an examination of adverse events, or more about how we did it.

The physicians in the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American Diabetes Association panels that have presided over changes in defining pre-diabetes and diabetes or patient treatment guidelines received more than $2 million for consulting and speaking activities for diabetes drug manufacturers:

It's the ACCORD effect all over again. Tell people whose carbohydrate metabolism is broken to "eat more starch" then use heroic amounts of medication to drag the BG back down again, but to nowhere like safe levels. To do this requires the generation or injection of huge amounts of insulin which is a danger in itself.

A combination of low carb, exercise, fasting or metformin when necessary reduces the insulin resistance and hence insulin levels along with the BG. Drugs used to fine tune this process may be necessary in minimal quantities. Of course this is not profitable.

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